One thing that was noted in the first installment of the MLB blog poll, is that with a small sample size of baseball stats to date, the voters may be inclined to vote for who they think will win the award. As the season progresses, the votes would tend to get closer and closer to [...]
Archive for the ‘MVP’ Category
MLB Blog Poll Votes Week 1
Posted in American League, blogpoll, Cy Young, MVP, ROY on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Introducing the MLB BlogPoll
Posted in American League, blogpoll, Cy Young, MVP, National League, Rookie Of Year on March 19, 2008 | 9 Comments »
The basic outline is this: Every week, we rank the MVP, CY Young, and Rookie of Year (rotating between American and National League each week) candidates 1-3, with 1 being the best and 3 being the worst. In summary, we are voting for the Cy Young, Most Valuable Player, and Rookie of the Year were [...]
Bonds Away?
Posted in Braves, Diamondbacks, Giants, Great Players of Past, Long Term Contracts, Mariners, MLB, MVP, National League, NL East, Orioles, Padres, Pirates, Rangers, Rays, Royals, Steroids, Tigers, Twins on February 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Early on in the baseball career of Barry Bonds, he was known as one of the Pittsburgh Pirates Killer B’s. With the numbers Bonds was putting up on scoreboards throughout Major League Baseball for the Pirates in the early 90′s , he won two National League Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, and was proving to [...]
Quad 2007 Rankings stirs up NL MVP Debate
Posted in American League, JImmy Rollins, Matt Holiday, MLB, MVP, National League, Phillies, Rockies, Sabermetrics, Uncategorized on February 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With the 2008 baseball pre-season here, you are probably trying to figure out which player will be the offensive force to build your fantasy team around. The one baseball statistic that I have been following for a while now is the Quad which Rich Lederer pointed out several years ago when he compared some of [...]
NL MVP Voters know their Quad
Posted in Cardinals, MVP, National League, Phillies, Sabermetrics on January 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It is mid January, and you find yourself bummed that the team you were hoping to root for all season long on your Television won’t be there now that baseball has followed the NFL and is going steady with Direct TV. Well, I guess there is always MLB.TV There is plenty of time before pitchers [...]
